Sentences with phrase «in bobsledding»

Just like in bobsledding, the speed of the descent is controlled by a handbrake in the car.

That is especially true in bobsledding, a sport in which waiting for visual cues can hamper a driver's reaction time.

For those looking to push their boundaries on the mountain beyond sliding on one or two pieces of wood, head over to Olympic Park and take a fantasy camp in bobsled, skeleton, or luge.

Not exact matches

The U.S. national bobsled team is in Germany for World Cup Olympic trials — but their bobsleds are stuck in customs at Los Angeles International Airport.

Seun Adigun decided to change that, as she explained to the New York Times Magazine in January, describing this revelation while she was training with the U.S. bobsled team.

«Crates are held up in L.A.,» a U.S.A. Bobsled & Skeleton rep said.

Bobsledding is popular in southeast Asia, while Australia is more fond of snowboarding.

More recent projects include the design of the two - man bobsleds used by the U.S. team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

One thing to know: The Nigerian women's bobsled team is not just Nigeria's first - ever bobsled team, but the first African nation to have a bobsled team in the Olympics.

He was drawn to luge over bobsledding because the line was shorter and you could get more runs in.

Seven Russian bobsled and skeleton athletes banned by the IOC were cleared to compete in World Cup events, the CAS confirmed Thursday.

After 10 years of trying and failing to qualify for the Summer Olympics in track and field, Adeagbo was inspired by watching the Nigerian bobsled team to try a winter sport instead, intrigued by the possibility of «making history.»

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

Yet Flowers became the first black American to win a gold medal for bobsledding in the Winter Olympics.

Advancements in science, piloting jets, performing neurosurgery, flying to the moon, authoring great novels, Olympic bobsledding and being our parents.

Linda's Guinness Ice Cream in honor of the Jamaican bobsled team at Spicebox Travels (use Green's Discovery or whatever gf beer you like)

# 24 Travis Bell CENTENNIAL Won gold medal in four - man bobsled at 1999 America's Cup; won silver in two - man; first rookie to place in top 10 at world snowmobiling championships.

While Lolo had success at LSU it has yet to translate into success in the Olympics and now she is trying her hand at making the U.S. Women's Bobsled team.

BOBSLED — SWITZERLAND II, driven by Erich Sch √ § rer, won the world four - man championships with a four - run combined time of 3:16.28, in Koenigsee, West Germany.

Edgar Seymour, the engineer, and Dr. Arthur Tyler, the physicist, brought their 360 - pound bobsled down from Rochester, N.Y. the other day and set it up in the wind tunnel at the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, College of Engineering, New York University.

The bobsled cowling may, therefore, be altered so that when they are streaking downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, during the 1956 winter Olympics a piece of string held between them will point in the proper aerodynamic direction, which is backward.

BOBSLEDDING — The West German team of HORST FLOTH and JOSEF (Pepi) BADER defeated teams from 12 other countries to take the world two - man bobsled title in 5:05.39 for four heats over the St. Moritz, Switzerland run.

It was there, last March, that he drove his quartet to the first world championship for a U.S. team in 50 years and raised hopes that at the Vancouver Games next February, the U.S. men can win their first Olympic bobsledding gold medal since 1948.

It's a Monday night in mid-October, and bobsled season has just begun, so where else would the world four - man champions be but in Lake Placid, N.Y., swapping sledding stories at Lisa G's bar?

A self - described combination of «speed, violence and big guys in too - tight clothes,» the U.S. four - man bobsled team is on course to end a 62 - year Olympic gold medal drought

The closeness continued at the highest levels of the game when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Players» Association director Bob Goodenow and International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel hunkered down last Thursday in a four - man bobsled for a trip down the Olympic course at slap - shot speed.

Could Salt Lake City have bobsled runs and ski races under the lights, in prime time?

Gov. David Paterson is in Lake Placid today to sign DWI prevention legislation into law and attend the addition of the bobsled track to the National Register of Historic Places.

Steven Holcomb, the longtime U.S. bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid Saturday.

The Olympic Village won the bids to host the Eighth Annual International Children's Olympic Winter Games in 2019, and the International Bobsled and Skeleton World Championship in 2021.

Glaser spoke about the «Labor for Your Neighbor» events held over the long weekend, in which about 1,000 volunteers from around the state — including an Olympic bobsled team — pitched in on the recovery effort.

In 2017, Governor Cuomo announced that Lake Placid was chosen to host the 2019 International Children's Games, and the 2021 Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships.

«I basically got into the sport of bobsledding in 2015 after a little bit of a hiatus from athletics,» Onwumere tells People.

Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, and Akuonma Omega make up the trio of Nigerian women who will be competing in the 2018 games as representatives for the first - ever African — male or female — bobsled team.

Gravity is a big factor in the sport of bobsled.

I like to use my lifting session as potentiation for the bobsled training session later in the day.

In bodybuilding, I periodized my training volume based on how far out I was from a show, and for bobsled I do the same thing.

The nutrition aspect of both bodybuilding and bobsledding went hand - in - hand for me.

There is a lot of stress that goes through your body for bobsled, so the main focus is to try and stay healthy and fuel the body as much as possible so it can have the energy to perform at its best, day in and out.

Switching to bobsledding gave me a different perspective, which in turn restored my love for track and my desire to compete.»

There is limited surround usage, particularly in the actual bobsled runs.

With Irv as the coach, Derrice, friend Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug), and fellow athletes Yul Brenner (Yoba) and Junior Bevil (Lewis) give their best effort into becoming Jamaica's first bobsled team, while having to overcome many challenges, from the freezing cold weather in Calgary to their fellow competitor's unwillingness to take Jamaica seriously.

A Walt Disney movie, Cool Runnings is based upon the true story of the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

In Eddie The Eagle there is a reference to the famous Jamican bobsled team that were showcased in Cool RunningIn Eddie The Eagle there is a reference to the famous Jamican bobsled team that were showcased in Cool Runningin Cool Runnings.

Of the five 2v2 minigames in MP1, that's easily the worst one... Bobsled Run, Handcar Havoc (came back as a MP2 game), Deep Sea Divers, I mean... BOMBSKETBALL!

I let out a good old southern «Yahoo!» riding a toboggan down from the top of the Great Wall of China and again in Jamaica when my bobsled went airborne.

The Caribbean nation of Jamaica sent a bobsled team to the 1988 Winter games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada!

The rear - seat passengers sit in thin little buckets separated by a towering console — from above, a full Rapide S probably looks like a pair of two - man bobsled teams preparing to race.

While BMW was busy waxing their bobsleds at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the engineering team at Volkswagen was making history by crossing the treacherous glacier - covered Sredinny Range as part of a Polar Expedition to promote the Olympics.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ — February 9, 2018... BMW of North America and the USA Bobsled / Skeleton (USABS) are back together in an attempt to recapture the success they enjoyed at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games when the USA Bobsled Team brought home three medals in a BMW - designed sled.